Editor’s Note

The biggest story this week isn’t technically about freelancing, but could definitely ruin our freelancing and personal lives. It’s a retelling by Mat Honan: how his digital life was destroyed in the span of an hour. If you don’t read anything else this week, read the articles under “Security and Two Factor Authentication” and protect yourself.

Security and Two Factor Authentication

If you’ve ever seen someone with an RSA tag, maybe you have something similar with your business bank account that generates a time/sequenced based number that has to be used in addition to your password; that’s two-factor authentication.

Pat Flynn has been crushing it for quite a while now, but if you need a monthly spurt of inspiration, this might work. No, it’s not freelancing, but there are other ways than selling your time to make money.

Show or Tell

We talked about productivity on Ruby Freelancers and this hit at just the right time.

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